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Meeting in the library.

Part Two.

Back in Cleveland

Xander catches up with Willow "Wills, I have that information for you but you're not going to like it."

"Xan, there hasn't been anything I liked about the situation. So far, what have you got?"

"Turns out that the satellite radio guy Charlie Frost has a website that explains what's happening. Here, I printed out the text for you."

Willow looked at the pages Xander gave her. Tears began to fill her eyes half way down the first page. "I'll…I'll get this to Giles." She said in a shaky voice threatening to sob.

Xander pulled Willow into a hug. "We'll get through this Will. I swear we will. We'll find the location. We'll survive. You can count on it!"

"But what will be left?" she cried.

Just then Willows cell phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and announced. "It's Dawn." She said calmly.

"I've got to get copies of these to Buffy. Find me when you're done if you want to talk."

"Thanks, I'll be okay." She said opening her cell phone as Xander walked away.

Meanwhile, in a private booth at the leaky caldron Harry and Hermione compared notes.

"What do you mean, he was lying?" Hermione asked stunned by his accusation.

"I'm telling you that he said just the opposite of what you've told me Miss Summers had told you. He told me he was doing the research for a book that he was writing. He said he didn't believe in any of it. I just wish I knew why."

"The way I see it, there can only be one of two reasons or even both." Hermione began, "Either he doesn't want to sound like a madman or he realizes (like us) that the less people that know about this the better."

"You do realize that this means he believes in magic and the daft Idea of demons."

"Well, there isn't a law that prevents a muggle from believing in magic as long as they don't have proof. But, I must say the Demon thing does make them sound a bit daft. So daft, that if I hadn't already done some independent research on my own about the prophecy; I may have considered it as hogwash and chucked the whole thing in to the waste bin. What do you think we should do?"

"What else can we do except wait and see what happens."

Ninety five minute later they were back at the library. "Sorry, that it took us longer than expected." apologized Giles.

"Yeah, it seems the mom and pop restaurant had an employee problem. One of the waiters was found with his hand in the till yesterday. So they were understaffed today." Dawn replied.

"I felt sorry for them. I've eaten there frequently and the food and service have been exemplary, except for today. So, I tipped them quite well, regardless. I do hope you had a better lunch experience then us."

"It went well; we even had an interesting conversation." Harry replied.

Dawn and Giles glanced at each other knowing what was about to be said.

"I know you lied about your belief in demons, I have to wonder why. What are you hiding?"

"Harry!" Hermione scalded. She had no Idea he would just start blindly accusing her employer of lying. It would have taken longer but they could have gotten information out of them much more subtly.

"Hiding? Hiding has nothing to do with it. It is simply that I didn't want to answer questions about demons to people that aren't in the know." Giles replied calmly. "People who aren't aware of the things that go bump in the night. But then, you aren't the only one that has been comparing notes at lunch. I've just learned the headmaster of your school was Albus Dumbledore. He is someone known to us as being a very powerful wizard. So, therefore, you must know something of the darker elements that chew its way through the nights."

"Eew… Gruesome much?" Dawn retorted.

"Yes. Well, sorry about that," Giles said sheepishly.

Harry and Hermione stood there gob smacked which Giles mistook for blank stares.

"Or is there another Albus Dumbledore, I'm unaware of?"

Harry slowly laid his hand on his wand. Hermione inconspicuously held Harry's wand arm down as Giles continued.

"Mind you, we could have used his help a few years back." He said.

"Why is that?" Hermione asked.

"Well, we had a witch that was having a hard time controlling her powers." he explained.

"It was a real mess." Dawn added, her head bowed remembering what caused her friend Willows to have the scary power problem. This started with Willows girlfriend Tara who was also one of Dawns best friends. She was shot to death in Willows arms. While the rest of the Scooby's dealt with an out of control Willow, Dawn found Tara's body and was unable to take her eyes off it she was unable to leave her friends body alone on the floor of the bedroom. She stayed with her for hours before anyone came home to check on her.

"Out of control?"… Harry began, Professor Dumbledore's sister 'Ariana' came to mind. She had been traumatized at an early age after being beaten by muggles. They were scared of her when they saw her perform real magic. After the traumatizing event; she had no control over her magic anymore. She would spout off blasts of magic randomly, without intention, throughout the day and night.

"What happened to your friend?" Hermione asked.

"Another friend of ours was able to get through to her, calming her down diverting her from her destructive path. We were hoping to have Dumbledore help her manage self control. It's been a long recovery." Giles explained.

"I still don't think she believes in herself enough, even now." Dawn added

"Yes, that can be dangerous in our line of work. If her spells are to weak; she could get someone killed."

"We know Willows' anything but weak. She's undoubtedly the most powerful magic user in our generation."

Dawns use of this particular title confused both Harry and Hermione. They had only heard that title referred to Harry himself. These people obviously didn't know what they were talking about. They were probably a bit deranged in Harry's opinion. They did believe in demons after all. And they knew a witch; so, they knew about magic. This wasn't good.

It was Hermione who spoke next. "Mr. Giles…Are you a muggle?"

"I'm sorry; I'm unfamiliar with that term?" He replied, hoping for a definition.

Not knowing the definition was proof enough that he was but for some reason she decided to clarify for him. She didn't want to have to use memory charms on him but it didn't look like there was going to be a choice.

"A muggle is someone without magical abilities."

Giles looked a bit bewildered for a moment. Then, spoke, "Was Dumbledore truly your headmaster?"

"Are you avoiding the question?" Harry asked.

"Not at all, but you see, if Albus Dumbledore were your headmaster you would know that with time and effort anyone can do magic.

This statement befuddled Harry and Hermione. Was he a wizard or was he truly insane? If he were the latter he was very cool and collected about it. These types are always dangerous.

This may be a situation where it would be safer to stupefy them then ask questions. Harry thought.

Just as Harry was ready to pull out his wand a female voice called out.

"Giles! Dawn! Are you here?" said the voice as a red head rounded the corner.

"Willow?" Dawn Called.

"Dawnie! Giles! there you are! I've been looking all over this place for you two." Willow announced.

"I know. Isn't it cool. Have you ever seen so many books?" Dawn replied.

"Dawn! Willow! Please do demonstrate some decorum. This is a library after all. Have I taught you nothing about soft voices within its walls?"

"We weren't that loud. You're just being all tweedy and watchery." Dawn groused.

With a sigh, Giles continued, "Never the less, Willow how did you get here from America so fast as if I didn't know."

Without noticing Dawn's and Giles's guests, Willow broke into babble relaying the reason she was here.

"I just got off the phone with the witches. After I heard what they had to say I thought I'd better teleport here and tell you what I found out. First of all it seems Albus Dumbledore has died but he wasn't dead when I went to stay with the witches. It turns out he was just busy with a big bad named Voldemort and his followers. They were making things pretty bad in this part of the world. When Dumbledore died, he passed the torch to that Harry Potter guy you met. There was a prophecy, I don't know why but it called him the boy who lived, but it said Harry would defeat Voldemort and he did. Apart from that, we found out what's happening to the Earth; so, I thought I'd better get here to tell you about it."

Harry and Hermione stood there shocked for many reasons. Harry decided to toss out the one that had stunned him the most.

"Bligh me, she can babble better and faster than you do when your excited Hermione."

Willow was startled to find two other people she hadn't noticed. Now she felt like a deer caught in the headlights.

"Excuse me," Hermione interrupted, breaking the uncomfortable silence. "That you know any of this is disturbing. But did you say, you found out what's happening to the earth?"

"Forgive me," Giles responded. "Willow Rosenberg this is Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. They were both students of Dumbledore's. Harry, Hermione this is Willow our resident Witch."

"Oh, you're the one that took down that evil wizard and his cronies." Willow stated. Now, knowing she didn't give anything away to people who were not in the know.

"Yes, I'm still working on rounding up said cronies as it were, but you must be the witch that can't control her magic." Harry replied.

"Oh, I see you've already gotten to that part." Willow said visibly deflated. "I'm not really that bad anymore. I can do the small stuff alright. It's just the bigger spells give me some bother. I can do everything from levitation teleportation, even summoning with no problem; it's just some of the rituals that freak me out sometimes.

"Rituals?" Rituals were usually used for the darker arts. Harry and Hermione wondered, And what does she mean small stuff? Those spells she mentioned were some of the hardest to learn and do. They thought.

Wait a moment, dark rituals? Demons and demon prophecies? These people are dark and dangerous. Harry thought.

He pulled out his wand and pointed it at Willow since she admitted to being a witch.

"As an Auror and by the power and authority of the Ministry of Magic, I hereby arrest you for breaking the wizarding secrecy act and suspicion of performing dark magic."

"Harry, what the hell are you doing?" thundered Hermione, shocked by Harry's behavior.

"Think about it Hermione. Rituals and demons there up to some dark stuff! Along with her giving muggels evidence of the magical world, is all I need to bring her in."

Willow looked at them. Then at Giles and Dawn and back again. "What the frilly heck are you talking about? I only understood about a third of what you just said. Auror? Ministry of Magic? Wizarding secrecy act? And what the heck are muggles?"

"Um…Harry. She doesn't seem to know what we're talking about. We didn't actually see her do any magic. So, if there is anyone here violating the Wizarding Secrecy Act I think it may be you." Hermione pointed out.

"It would seem a muggle is a person who can not do magic. Or so, they told us." Giles announced.

"But… but that's ridiculous. Anyone can do magic." Willow said.

"That's what we've tried to tell them." Dawn confirmed.

"Listen, are you or are you not a wizarding witch?" Harry asked.

"Wizarding…no, I don't think so. I'm a Wicca."

"Oh dear." Hermione said nervously.

"Wicca? What's that?" Harry asked.

"Harry, Wicca is more of a muggle religion." Hermione began. "They pray to deities and sacrifice herbs to them through burnings. They believe in magic but it is believed that what they do is more along the line of parlor tricks. As a matter of fact, any wizard that's done any research hasn't found a Wicca that can actually do any kind of magic. I highly doubt she can do anything remotely magically impressive."

Willow raised her hand and said "STICK" and Harry's wand flew from his hand and into hers.

"Wand less magic?" Hermione whispered gob smacked.

Harry was silent for a second. He was to shocked to say anything. But when he got his voice back he looked to Hermione and said. "And just what parlor do they teach tricks like that Hermione?"

"I'm sorry, Harry. I mean I didn't think it was possible. All the books said… That is to say, their not suppose to be all that powerful. That she got your wand from you with what little magic she should possess… Well, it must have been a fluke, somehow. Come to think of it, that didn't even sound like a real spell. All she said was "Stick.""

"Sorry. I guess, I'll have to remember to say Wand next time." Willow said sarcastically after hearing Hermione's explanation.

"What a minute," Dawn began. "As in magic wands, does that mean you can't do magic without it? Can anyone use it? Would I be able to conger up a horse if I waved it and said Abracadabra?"

Harry and Hermione said nothing. They just winced and stared at them. Willow, however, was reaching out with her magic as she probed the significance of the wand.

"It doesn't seem to have any magic per say, but it seems to have something mildly magical within. I'd say it's used as a catalyst for whatever kind of magic he pushes through it." she said.

As Willow looked back at the pair she caught Hermione trying to sneak her wand out. But before Hermione could threaten them with it, Willow again raised her hand only this time she said "wand" and Hermione watched as her wand was wrenched from her grasp. It flew across the room into Willows outstretched hand. This had totally gob smacked Hermione as she had a tight grip on it. Any tighter and the force of the pull would have snapped her wand.

"Oh, brilliant Hermione." Harry groused.

"But… but that's not possible that isn't even a real spell. I demand to know how you're doing that and why you can do it without a wand." Hermione demanded.

"So, you really can't do anything without a wand?" Dawn stated.

Harry eyed Hermione, silently telling her to stop talking. But Hermione wasn't interested in his anger or even the secrecy act; she wanted to get to the bottom of this; if need be Harry could obliviate them later; after they got out of this… Ssomehow.

"You too? What's with you guys?" Willow asked disappointed. "I thought Giles said you were our friends. Why are you trying to attack us? We didn't do anything to you?"

"You're obviously a witch and from the sound of it a dark one at that, if you have these muggles believing in demons and such. Just what is your game?"

Willow, Giles and Dawn were stunned for a moment before Willow spoke.

"First of all, I already confirmed I was a witch. Second, I try never to use my powers for dark deeds. And third, Giles is the one who brought the demon to 'my' attention hence, the reason I studied to become a witch, which wasn't easy because the Wicca books they produce today are crap."

"Just what are you people trying to pull? First, Wicca's aren't true Witches so you have to be a wizarding witch. And secondl, there aren't such things as demons."

"If you want to see just what a Wicca can do I'll show you buster.

And if there are no demons then what is the purpose of the slayer."

"What's a Slayer?" Harry Asked.

"I've read about those. Not at Hog…" (Hermione stopped herself from telling them the name of their Alma mater.) "At school but as Mr. Giles had me research demons I came across the legend of the Slayer. The story goes to every generation there is a young girl between the ages of twelve to twenty that is suppose to be imbued with the strength and skill to kill the vampires and demons. But, it's just a myth."

"Actually, it's not a myth." Dawn replied, "And if you've never seen a slayer fight you haven't seen anything."

"A little girl taking on demons and such, what do you take us for? Even if we believed demons were real." Harry scoffed.

"Oh dear, I would have thought Dumbledore knew something about demons vampires and werewolves." Giles replied.

Harry and Hermione looked at one another before Harry turned back to them and asked. "What about werewolves?"

"Well, the people bitten by a "were" in fact have been infected with a demonic curse that have had most Wicca's pulling out there hair for century's trying to figure out how to remove the curse."

"What would you do with werewolves if you found one? You wouldn't kill it, would you?" Hermione asked with concern in her voice.

"No!" Willow said aghast. "Their humans but they can't control themselves three days out of a month. We find them and give them information as to where they can get help in controlling there beast so they can control the shift to happen when and where they feel safe or where it could be put to use."

"That's impossible. No one can do that. So, you people take advantage of the infected and give them false hope. Just how much are you fleecing them for?" Harry fumed.

"Actually, my ex was a werewolf and he can shift any time he wants and uses his heightened senses to find missing or lost people."

"I believe you people are barking mad." Harry exclaimed!

"Why. Is it because I had a werewolf for a boyfriend? Oz was the best boyfriend a woman could have. He's Oz first and wolf forth."

"Forth?" Hermione asked.

"He's also and ace computer programmer and mean bass guitarist."

"We're not against werewolves, we even had one as a professor and he was also a great friend. But the government legislation on werewolves is quite harsh anywhere in the U.K. and Europe." Hermione stated.

"I didn't realize there was legislation on werewolves?" Dawn replied.

"Good lord. You did say just a bit ago something about a Ministry of Magic. Giles said in amazement. Are you to tell me that the wizarding population is big enough to have its own government body that the rest of us know nothing about?"

Harry shot a look at Hermione for talking so much that the Muggles were starting to put together information about the wizarding world. Turning back to Giles, Harry tried to take charge of the conversation once more. "Don't change the subject. The topic was demons and your sanity."

"You're right, we are off topic but this line of questioning is getting us no where." Willow said walking up to them and stopping three feet in front of them. "And that's got to change."

The next moment, Giles and Dawn were alone in the library as the magic users had disappeared from the building in a blink of an eye.

AN: For those who think Harry is out of character trust me when I say there is a reason for it. Unfortunately it may be a couple of chapters before it's explained.